The chairman of a conservative think tank stepped in it more than once during a visit to MSNBC’s “The Weekend” and found himself on the receiving end when he tried to blow off Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin. Speaking with co-hosts Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele, Michael Needham of the conservative American Compass was pressed on how President-elect Donald Trump should deal with Putin’s continuing war with Ukraine. After watching a clip of the former president boasting he could end the war immediately, MSNBC’s Steele remarked, “Okay. I will set aside the idea that i…